ARCHITECTS

Toyo Ito is a Master Class Architect who works with 'Innovation and Design Creativity'. He is "known for creating extreme concept buildings in which he seeks o fuse both the physical and virtual world."
(http://transmaterialasia.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/toyo-ito-master-class-architects-who-works-with-innovation-and-design-creativity/)

Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Price for architecture in 2004. She creates buildings with a multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
(http://www.zaha-hadid.com/category/built-works)

Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and CEO of "Architecture and Humanity" - which is a charitable organisation which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need.

Day 3, Wednesday 18th May 2011, LAB SESSION 4.

TASK: Create a tree house.


1) Working in our teams of 3, open Archichad.
Go to: Teamwork >> Project >> Open/Join Teamwork project.
2) Created a slab. 
3) Created walls.
4) Created a window in the walls of the tree house.
5)
6) Produced a section as a PDF.
7) Produce a perspective as a PDF.
8) Produced an axonometric as a PDF.
9) Set up an "openingdesign.com" sketchbook for our group of three.
10) Applied the opening design sketchbook as a media texture in SL.

Lecture 4 Worksheet...


*Schoonover, C. Portraits of the mind. Visualizing the Brain from the Antiquity to the 21st Century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYJdrLkM6g

• Decoi Architects:
  http://www.architecture-trend-press.net/Data/_archi/Print.php?time=1093863840&year=2004-2005
• NOX - An art and architecture design office based in Rotterdam.
  http://www.nox-art-architecture.com/
• Shop Architects:
  http://www.shoparc.com/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHoP_Architects

Day 2, Wednesday 11th May 2011, LAB SESSION 3.

1) Downloaded Scratch4SL and shared software.
2) Found 3 online resources that explain how to script in SL.

• http://www.instructables.com/
• http://www.3greeneggs.com/
• http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/ (Scratch for Second Life - MOST USEFUL)

3) Created a sphere and script so that when I am touched, the sphere object moves one meter.
NOTE: Steps to creating a script and loading it in Second Life:

• Open S4SL
• Create script
• Copy linden
• (Second life) BUILD
• Select and object and create it on an empty space (In KAIAKO)
• Click "content" - new script - right click new script and open - select all and delete - then paste script.
• Save

4) When bottom photo is touched, it prompts a message asking the avatar to load a URL. This URL leads to my blog.
5) The glass doors upon entry, and the one leading to the outdoor reading space has been scripted to open and close when touched. Created by Tania West.
6) A computer in the corner upon entry. Created by Tania West.
7) Fill in grades on handouts.
8) Make sure Judy has correct information on excel sheet, and that she knows who our team is. Done.
9) Applied media texture to carpet and skylight.
10) Discovered how to use particles - Snow outside building entry.

Note for photoshop texture:

Save as a "targa" format in photoshop.

Discovered a blog:

-www.curtiscoeur.blogspot.com

Day 1, Wednesday 4th May 2011, LAB SESSIONS 1 and 2.

1) Applied for an account on the NZVWG (New Zealand Virtual World Grid).
2) Activated an Avatar for myself on Secondlife.com. Learnt to walk, im, fly, camera around.
3) Found allocated journals from the list on the wall. Found them in Library Search and saved them in "saved items" on library account. Three journals include:

• Architecture New Zealand.
• Ecotech: Sustainable Architecture today.
• Owner builder magazine.

4) Set up a delicious account. Still need to bookmark three journals because system was down.

5) Raced around Putahi to find blog addresses from last year's students of ARCHRC102. Only blogs I found were:

• chae7595.blog.bom
• http://www.curtiscoeur.blogspot.com/
• roxannebottom.blogspot.com

6) Set up this blog account.

7) IM JudyArcx Scribe so that I may receive a group invititation.

8) Three useful and interesting website/videos/wikis that tell you about Architecture in the Virtual World and/or how to make something in Secondlife.

• archvirtual.com
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digCB4pAfVQ (You Tube)
• http://secondlife.com/whatis/create/
• http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/HowToBuildInSecondLife.html

9) Found Nimbus and the Media Centre.

10) Worked out team of three. Myself, Tania West, and Alfred Wigmore. Chosen tendecy: FOLD.

SECOND WORKSHEET.

1) Opened photoshop and created an image that was 400x400 pixels. Using the render/filter tool, casted 3 colours of light to generate a white light.
2) Placed an object into second life and cast the 3 coloured lights. The value of those 3 lights were:

• Red: ff000
• Green: 0bf00b
• Blue: 010391 (Birthday colour)

3) Birthday colour: 010391.

4) Description of additive colour: When light is added, a brighter light is created.

5) Description for subtractive colour: When more colours are added to create a "darker" colour.

6) 

7) When walking out to the outdoor reading space, the frames holding pictures of the members in our group can be seen. When the bottom picture is touched, a messenger is prompted asking the avatar to load a URL. This URL leads to my blog.

8) Generated a material using an offset filter. Made a carpet in the main building using the generated filter.

STEPS:

• Filter >> Other >> Offset.
• Filter >> Render >> Brighten.
• Channels: Shows where each colour is on the image you've created by giving the option of turning off each light. Each colour is represented by a number.
• Add a new layer. This layer becomes "alpha" which is black, and blocks all colours. The other colours (red, blue and green) only emerge from the area that you rub out.
• Save as PSD. Save a copy of that same image as a "targa" format so that it can be uploaded to second life.

9) Generated a material using alpha channel - the chairs in the study cubical.

10) Played with sculpties.